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Society of Colonial Wars 



IN THE 



District of Columbia 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



SOCIETY 



COLONIAL WARS 



IN the; 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
1894 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 
JUDD & DETWKir^RR, PRINTERS 

Nc)Vb;mi3p:r, 1894 



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Gift 

Mrs. Julian James 

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SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



The Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Co- 
luniljia was organized May 20, 1898, with a nienil)ershii) 
of twelve, and was incorporated November 17, 1898. 
The first General Court was held on Deceml)er 19, 1893, 
and the officers and committees for the ensuing year 
elected. The first annual dinner was also held on the 
same evening, the two hundred and eighteenth anni- 
versarv of the Swam]) Fight. 



OFFICERS 

OF 

SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

IN TIIK 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 

1894-95. 



Governor, 

General WALTER WYMAN, U. S. I^L H. S. 

Depufji (rorenior, 

Captain OSCAR FITZALAN LONG, U. S. Army. 

Lieutenant Gorernor, 

Professor G. BROWN GOODE. 

Secretari/, 

JOSEPH CUYLER HARDIE, 

War Department. 

Deputy Secretarii, 

JOHN WILLIAM HENRY. 

Treasurer, 

JOSEPH FREDERICK BATCLIELDER, 

.510 9th Street N. AV. 

Efi/intrar, 
Captain- CALVIN DUVALL COWLES, IT. S. Army. 

rnstori<ui, 

ALONZO HOWARD CLARK. 

Chaplain, 

Reverend JAMES OWEN DORSEY. 

Chaueellor, 
EDWARD AUGUSTUS MOSELEY. 

Surgeon, 
ALBERT CHARLES PEALE, M. D. 



(icnllcmcn of the Council, 
(To serve tlirep years) 
Hear An>riRAL FRANCIS ASBURY ROE, IT. S. Nuvv. 
WILLIAiM II()LCO:\ir. WEI]8TER. 
CHARLES WALDO HASKINS. 

(To serve two years) 
Gen'kual RICHARD N. lUTCIIELDF^R, U. S. Arniv. 
EDWARD AUGUSTUS MOSELEY. 

(To serve one year) 
Professor G. BROWN GOODE. 
JAMES BOWEN JOHNSON. 
ALOXZO HOWARD CLARK. 

Committee on Mrmhcvfihip, 
CHARLES F. T. BEALE. 

Captain OSCAR FITZALAN LONG, U. S. Arniv. 
FRANK BIRGE SMITH. 
WILLIA]\I IIOLCOMB WEBSTER. 
CHARLES WALDO HASKINS. 

Committee on HiMorical Docnmcnt.'i. 
SAMUEL MOORE SHUTE, D. D. 
GEORGE COLTON MAYNARD. 
ALONZO HOWARD CLARK. 
ALBERT CHARLES PEALE, M. D. 
JAMES BOWEN JOHNSON. 

Connnittee on ])ist(i!latlon, 
EDWARD AUGUSTUS ISIOSELEY. 
General WALTER WYMAN. 
HENRY DEARBORN SAXTON. 
FRANK BIRGE SMITH. 
CHARLES EDWARD COOKE. 

Di'leyates to tlic Ceneral Assemtdii, 
CHARLES AVALDO HASKINS. 
General ABSALOM BAIRD, U. S. Army. 
General RICHARD N. BATCmELDER, IT. S. Army. 
CHARLES F. T. BEALE. 
FRANK BIRGE SMITH. 



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SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. 

Office of Secretary, 

Nos. 4 AND 6 Warren St., 

New York, A'pril 1, 1893. 

Sir : I have tlie honor to inform j'ou that at a meeting 
of the Council of the " Society of Colonial Wars " held 
on March 31, 1893, you were duly appointed on the 
Committee for organizing a " Society of Colonial Wars 
in the District of Columbia. " 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

HowLAND Pell, 

Secrelary. 
To Rear Admiral Roe, Chairman. 



CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. 



We, the undersigned, Francis Asbur}' Roe, of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; Charles Edward Coon, of New York 
city ; Oscar Fitzalan Long, Richard Graham Davenport, 
and Joseph Frederick Batchelder, of the District of Co- 
lumbia; Richard Napoleon Batchelder, of New Hamp- 
shire ; Albert Charles Peale, of the District of Columbia ; 
Edward Augustus Moseley, of Massachusetts ; James 
Owen Dorsey, of Maryland ; Charles Edward Cooke, of 
New York; Samuel M. Shute, of the District of Co- 
lumbia, being persons of full age, all of whom are citizens 
of the United States, and a majorit}'^ of whom are citi- 
zens of the District of Columbia, do hereby certify that 
we have formed a society pursuant to and in conformity 
with sections five hundred and forty-five to five hundred 
and fifty-two, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States relating to the District of Columbia. 

That the corporate name of the said Society is 
"Society of Colonial Wars ix tpie District of Co- 
lumbia." 



That the term for whicli it is organized is ninety-nine 
years. 

That the oljjects of said Society are social and i)atri- 
otic, and the said Society has been formed for the pur- 
pose of perpetuating among their descendants the mem- 
ory of those brave and liardy men who assisted in 
establishing the Colonies of America, and imperiled 
their lives and interests in the French and Indian Wars, 
from May 13, 1607 to April 19, 1775, which, preceding 
the Revolutionary struggle, tended to form the glorious, 
free, and independent United States of America ; and for 
the collection and preservation of historical relics and 
documents relating to the period. 

That the number of managers who shall direct the 
concerns of said Society shall be nine. 

That the names of such managers for the first year 
are Francis Asbury Roe, Charles Edward Coon, James 
H. Watmough, Joseph Frederick Batchelder, Richard 
Graliam Davenport, Theodorus B. M. Mason, Edward 
Augustus Moseley, Samuel M. Shute, and Albert Charles 
Peale. 

The princii)al office of the said Societ\^ to be in the 
city of Washington. 

In witness whereof, we have hereunto, and to the 
duplicate hereof, set our hands and affixed our seals 

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tills sixtecntli duy of Noveniber, in the year one thou- 
sand eight hundred and ninety-three. 

Francis Asbury Roe, 

Rear Admiral, U. S. N. 
Charles Edward Coon. 
Oscar Fitzalan Long. 
Richard Graham Davenport, 

Lieutenant, U. S. N. 
Joseph Frederick Batchelder. 
Richard Napoleon Batchelder. 
Albert Charles Peale. 
Edward Augustus Moseley. 
Charles Edward Cooke. 
Samuel ]Muore Shute. 
James Owen Dorsey. 

In the i)resenee of — 

[seal.] a. M. McLacmlen, 

Notary Public. 

District of Columbia, s-ii.- 

Be it rememhered that on the 16th day of November, 
A. D. 1898, before me, A. M. McLachlen, notary public, 
appeared the aljove-named Francis Asljury Roe, Charles 
Edward Coon, Oscar Fitzalan Long, Richard Graham 
Davenport, Jose])h Frederick Batchelder, Richard Napo- 
leon Batchelder, Alliert Charles Peale, Edward Augustus 
Moseley, James Owen Dorse}', Charles Edward Cooke, 
and Samuel ^\. Shute, persons known to me to be the 
same described in the foregoing certificate, and they 

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severally ))ofore me made and signed the said certificate 
and acknowledged the same to be their certificate. 

Witness my hand and notarial seal the date above 
written. 

[seal.] a. M. McLachlen, 

Notary Public, D. C. 

District of Columbia, 
Office of the Recorder of Deeds. 

To Society of Colonial Wars. 
Deed of incorporation. Received for record Novem- 
ber 17, 1893. Fee paid, $1.00. 

Geo. F. Schayer, 

Deputy Recorder. 



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ADDRESS OF WELCOME 

BY HIS EXCELLENCY 

GOVERNOR FRANClvS ASBURY ROE, 

Delivered at the Dinner held at tlie Hotel Cochran on Deeembor 
19, 1803, in Celebration of the Two Hundred and Six- 
teenth Anniversary of the Great Swamj) Fight 
in King Philip's War. 



I have the pleasure to l)e assigned the duty of speaking- 
words of welcome to this Society of Colonial Wars on 
this their first annual meeting to celehrate an event of 
the Colonial era, and I have an additional pleasure to 
speak words of welcome to the representatives of the 
twin societies of the Sons of the Revolution, and the 
Societ\^ of the War of 1812. These three patriotic socie- 
ties are constituted to symbolize and illustrate the great 
drama of war in three acts, which gave us our American 
nationality and a high place among the nations. 

We Americans commonly suppose that the cradle of 
our nationalit}^ was found in 1776 ; that our principles 
of government by representation and election by the 
people and for the people came to light in 1776 ; that 
all our notions of liberty and constitutional government 
came into being in 1776. But I think we must turn back 
the leaves of our history at least one hundred and thirty 
years or more, if we are to find the origins of our nation- 
ality and the beginnings of our system of government. 
Tliat period of one hundred and thirty years preceding 



177G was the greatest scliool in wliich to educate states- 
men and wise politicians ever presented to the experience 
of men. It was a hard, robust, stul)born school ; indeed, 
oftentimes a cruel school, but one wliich develoi)ed all 
the wisdom, all the tact, all the stub1)orn resolution of 
purpose, and all the heroism in men. It was a school 
to educate men in building up states, building govern- 
ments, and laying the foundations of a nation. 

When the " Mayflower " anchored off the shores of 
Plymouth, down in her little cabin, spread upon a table, 
was a written instrument, a written constitution, signed 
by every pilgrim, and when they landed upon the shore 
they carried in their hands a written constitution for 
their governance. 

When the little colony of forty-odd persons left the 
Atlantic shores of New England to take their way 
through the pathless forest to the valley of the Con- 
necticut to found the New Haven Colony, in their haste 
and the distractions of the hour they took for their 
governance the Ten Commandments of the Hebrew 
Bible, in so far as applicable to their needs and necessi- 
ties. As the little colon}^ grew and expanded, and 
widened out, they added line upon line, precept upon 
precept, until they built up a constitutional form of gov- 
ernment. 

All through, from the Kennebeck to the James — in 
New England, in New Jersey, in Maryland, in Virginia, 
and in North Carolina — -precisely the same work of gov- 
ernment-budding and nation-building went on; audit 
mattered not if the language they spoke was the lan- 
guage of England, or tlie language of Holland, or the 
language of the Huguenots of France ; the work of build- 
ing governments, all and each on the same lines, and upon 
the same political princiides, went on. 

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It was a school of diplomacy, too. Surrounded as our 
Colonial fathers were by not one but by many nations, 
each having its own idiosyncrasies, its own attributes, 
its own views and virtues, the great act of diplomacy 
was of the highest importance. Down to that period, 
the greatest diplomatist was the greatest liar, and Talley- 
rand never wearied of quoting the Italian Machiavelli, 
that diplomatic language was invented to conceal 
thought and purpose. Not so, our Colonial fathers. 
They said what they meant and meant what they said, 
and the lines of policy taken and laid down by them in 
great fundamental principles of government, and in the 
broad and dangerous field of di^Dlomacy have been fol- 
lowed implicitly down to this very day. 

The Colonial era made 1776 a possibility. The Revo- 
lution was the necessary outcome of the French and 
Indian War; and what the Revolution accomplished 
in formal recognition by European states and by written 
treaty, by pen and ink, the War of 1812 accomplished 
in very fact and very deed. 

But we are here tonight to celel^-ate "the direful 
Swamp Fight " of King Philip's War. Phihp and his 
brother Alexander had received the brevet of honor of 
the names of the kings of Macedon ; and though they 
knew nothing of the kings of Macedon, they felt the 
honor conferred upon them by bearing illustrious 
names. 

King Philip was no ordinary man. It was not, I 
think, through French intrigue that Philip was inspired 
to his unhappy ftite. A man of superior abilities, tower- 
ing high over his fellow-tribesmen, he had the capacity 
to recognize that the white race beside him was superior 
to his own. Stung to the quick with jealousy and envy, 
he could not brook the thought of superiority over his 

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own race, and he resolved to blot out the white race 
from the face of the earth. Three times the Plymouth 
Council sent for him : the first time they told him frankly 
of their suspicions, and bade him go his way ; the second 
time they told him their suspicions deepened, and sent 
him on his way ; but the third time came words of warn- 
ing, and Philip was told that if he raised a finger of hos- 
tility, or broke a line of the ti-eaty the day of retribution 
would come. Fleet of foot, the King darted into the 
fore-st and gathered his warriors, and in a few days every 
hamlet, every village, and every cottage in that fair Con- 
necticut valley went np in flame and smoke and down 
in ashes. Men were slaughtered in the fields, defense- 
less mothers were brained with the tomahawk, and the 
little children, clinging to their mothers' skirts, were 
scalped, and the bloody trophies went dangling from the 
belts of the savages. 

But if the King was swift, the Colonial militia was 
swifter. Philip and his warriors took refuge upon an 
islet, in the midst of a great swamp, and there, in his 
fort, palisaded in Indian fashion, on a bitter cold De- 
cember afternoon, he was surrounded by the little army 
Avith their firelocks, and in four liours of dcadh' combat 
Philip and his warriors paid the penalty of their work. 

For thirty years thereafter there was peace and safety 
in the land, and although milk-and-water writers may 
sit in their libraries and armchairs and write of the 
rigor and cruelty of the Colonial men, who shall say 
the retribution was not righteous and just? 

But the culminating period of this long seventy years 
of continuous, desultory struggle came with the outbreak 
of the French and Indian War, known in Europe as the 
'• Seven Years' War." 

There was a crisis in the world's history. The popula- 

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tioiis of European states were seething in discontent and 
unrest, and volcanic fires were ready to break forth in 
flame and war. Kings' palaces had been converted into 
harems, and chateaux and castles of the nobility into 
seraglios. Bestiality, brutality, and sensuality went 
hand in hand with despotism. Vices unnamable had 
honeycombed society in every state of Europe. An 
American historian tells us that Louis XIV had drained 
the very marrow from the bones of the people, and that 
in one year seventy thousand of his subjects died of cold 
and starvation. 

For one thousand years all the violences, all the tur- 
moils, all the war and bloodshed among the nations 
turned and pivoted about two conflicting forces of sys- 
tems of government of men and nations. The feudal 
system of government was the child of the Latin races. 
Under it the villein on the glebe was the slave of the 
serf in his cabin, the serf of the count on his domain, 
the count of the baron in his castle, and the baron of the 
king in his palace. Sole owner was the king of all things 
visible, and, I may say, of all things invisible, for he 
pretended to hold in his iron grasp the very consciences 
of men and women. Sole owner he was of land and 
man, and down to the period of the French Revolution 
he owned the very bodies and souls of men and women. 
No more scientific machinery of despotism and slavery 
had ever been devised by the ingenuity of man. 

On the other hand, the teutonic law was the udal 
system of government. Under it the peasant in his 
cabin, Avith its rood of ground, was enthroned there in 
amplest personal sovereignty, and the count held by the 
same tenure, and the earl in his castle and the king in 
his palace by the same law of human sovereignty. It 
was no cant phrase of the peasant to say that his cabin 

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was liis castle, for no prince, no king, no lord, could cross 
his threshold without his free will and consent or the 
due })r()cess of law. 

Such were the two great systems in conflict for the 
mastery, not onl}^ of this Western world, but in the old 
world as well. 

Consider, if you please, that long line of frontier fring- 
ing our Colonial fathers' possessions. From Champlain 
and the three rivers, up the St. Lawrence to Oswego, up 
Ontario to Frontenac and Erie, up Erie to the head- 
waters of the Alleghany, down the Alleghany to the 
Monongahela and the Ohio, and down the Ohio to the 
Mississippi the line was bristling with hostility. 

Governor Dinvviddie has never received the credit that 
was his due. Like a true statesman, without orders from 
his king or government, he sent George Washington, 
with his five hundred Virginia frontiersmen, down to 
the Ohio country, there to call a halt and to hreah the 
line of the French invasion. It was a declaration of 
war, not only in America, but throughout all Christen- 
dom. On a dark and rainy morning, on the 4th of July, 
as if to make doubly memorable that blessed day, on 
came the French army, with its Indian allies, 1,200 
strong. The sharp crack of the firearms was followed 
by the fierce yell of the savages, and for long hours the 
little armies fought until both were not only decimated, 
but doubly decimated ; and George Washington, at Fort 
Necessity, began his military career with a defeat ! And 
what a defeat it was ! It finds no parallel in results in 
all history. The guns fired by Washington at Fort 
Necessity, in the Ohio forests, were heard in Berlin ; they 
were heard in Moscow and St. Peterslmrg ; they were 
heard in Vienna and Paris, and they were heard in 
London ! Armies of Prussia, armies of Russia, armies 

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of Austria, armies of France, armies of England and 
Hanover were all marshalled on the plains of Europe, 
to make there a scene of devastation and desolation ; and 
all this came to pass as a result of the bloody fioht of 
Washington at Fort Necessit}^ When and where in 
this wide universe have such tremendous results come 
from such small beginnings ? 

I know of no historic picture so beautiful to contem- 
plate as that of this young American stripling, not yet 
twenty -six years of age, breaking the line of the French 
invasion, and that English stripling, the gallant Wolfe, 
not yet twenty-three years of age, on the heights of 
Abraham ! Wolfe and his chivalric enemy, Montcalm, 
in deadly combat for the salvation of the world, where 
the one sealed his victory, the other his defeat, by a 
common death ! 

At last the great victory was won, and well might our 
fathers raise their eyes and hands to heaven and thank 
God for such a victory. Henceforth no dark shadows 
of fear should cross their imaginations that the long 
and heavy arm of feudal despotism should be laid across 
the breast of this fiiir continent. The teutonic law of 
severeignty had won this continent for its home. From 
the heights of Abraham the doom of feudal despotism 
was sounded, not only for our Western world, but for 
the weary, sorrowing, and suffering millions in the old 
world as well. 

It was not, I think, territorial aggrandizement, though 
the prize was no less a thing than the possession of a 
continent ; but a higher, a nobler, and a bigger- prize 
was at stake, in the personal sovereignty of man. 

This Society, as 1 have said, is a type and symbol of 
these might}^ events. Types and symbols never die. In 
that colossal desjiotism of imperial Rome, even under 

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the Augustan Qesars, down through the age of the An- 
tonines, even down to the days of Diocletian, that miU- 
tary monarchy wrapped itself in the mantle and in the 
forms of the republic, and degenerate Romans might be 
found to call upon the names of their Scipios and their 
Catos. Types and symbols never die and they repre- 
sent to us this inheritance from our fathers ; and this 
noble heritage of ours, let us see well to it that we, too, 
transmit it, in all its purity, in all its integrity, and in 
all its righteousness, to our children and to our chil- 
dren's children. 



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CONSTITUTION. 



PREAMBLE. 

Whereas, It is desirable that there should be adequate 
celebrations commemorative of the events of American 
Colonial History happening from the settlement of 
Jamestown, Va., May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexing- 
ton, April 19, 1775 : 

Therefore, The Society of Colonial Wars has been 
instituted to perpetuate the memory of those events 
and of the men who, in military, naval, and civil posi- 
tions of high trust and responsibility, by their acts or 
counsel assisted in the establishment, defense and pres- 
ervation of the American Colonies and were in truth 
the founders of this Nation. With this end in view it 
seeks to collect and preserve manuscripts, rolls, relics 
and recoi'ds; to provide suitable commemorations or 
memorials relating to the American Colonial period, and 
to inspire in its members the fraternal and patriotic 
spirit of their forefathers ; and in the community, re- 
spect and reverence for those whose public services 
made our freedom and unity possible. 

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ARTICLE I. 

NAME. 

The Society shall be known l)y the name and title of 
the " Society of Colonial Wars in the District of 
Columbia." It recognizes the authority of the '' General 
Society of Colonial AVars," and all its proceedings shall 
be subject to the Constitution of the General Society. 

ARTICLE 11. 

membership. 

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, 
of good, moral character and reputation, shall be eligible 
to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars, in the 
District of Columbia, who is descended from an ancestor 
who fought in battle under Colonial authority, or who 
served as a Governor, Deputy Governor, Lieutenant 
Governor, or member of the King's Council, or as a 
Military, Naval, or Marine Officer, Soldier, Sailor, Priva- 
teer, or Marine in the service of the Colonies, or under 
the banner of Great Britain in North America in the 
wars in which the said Colonies participated or enrolled 
men from the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, Ma}' 
13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, pro- 
vided the claim to eligibility is satisfactorily based upon 
the service of an ancestor who performed duty as above 
under Colonial sanction or British enlistment in North 
America, either in garrison, in the field or on the sea ; 
or decendcd from men who rendered conspicuous civil 

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service in a period of warfare. Should there be no direct 
descendant of such propositus, the Council may admit 
that collateral relative who shall be deemed best suited 
to represent such propositus, preference being given to 
the male line. 

ARTICLE III. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Societ}^ of Colonial Wars shall be a 
Governor, Deputy Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Sec- 
retary, Deputy Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar, His- 
torian. Chaplain, Chancellor, and Surgeon, who shall be 
ex officio members of the Council. 

ARTICLE IV. 

GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES. 

There shall be a Council, consisting of nine members, 
who shall be called " Gentlemen of the Council," in 
addition to the ex officio members; a Committee on 
Membership, consisting of five members ; a Committee 
on Collection of Historical Documents and Records, 
consisting of five members ; and a Committee on In- 
stallation, consisting of five members. At the first elec- 
tion three Gentlemen of the Council shall be elected 
for a term of one year, three for a term of two years, 
and three for a term of three years, and thereafter, at 
each election, three Gentlemen of the Council shall he 
elected for a term of three years. 

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ARTICLE V. 

NOMINATIOxN AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 

The Council shall appoint a Nominating Committee 
of nine members (not officers), who, two weeks before 
the General Court of the Society, shall report to the 
Council a list of members to be voted for at the ensuing 
election to succeed the officers and committees whose 
terms expire at the General Court. The officers, to- 
gether with the Gentlemen of the Council and members 
of committees, shall be elected by a j)lurality vote at 
the General Court by ballot. Said officers and mem- 
bers of the Council and committees shall hold office for 
the period of one year or until their successors are duly 
elected and qualified. For the residue of the current 
year vacancies shall be filled by the Council. 

ARTICLE VI. 

ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 

Every application for membership shall be made in 
writing, subscribed by the applicant, and approved by 
two members of the Society over their signatures. Ap- 
plications shall be accompanied by proof of eligibility 
and be referred to the Committee on Membershi}), who 
shall carefully investigate the same and report their 
recommendation thereon at the next meeting. Mem- 
bers shall be elected by vote at a Council of the Society, 
but a negative vote of one in five of the ballots cast 
shall cause tlie rejection of such candidate. Payment 

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of the initiation fee and dues and subscription to the 
declaration contained in the Constitution of the Society 
(Article VII) shall be a prerequisite of membership. 

ARTICLE VII. 

DECLARATION. 

Every member shall declare on honor that he will use 
his best efforts to promote the purposes of the Society 
and will observe the Constitution and By-laws of the 
same, and, if a citizen of the United States, that he will 
support the Constitution of the United States. Such 
declaration shall be in writing and subscribed to by each 
member. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

PURPOSES. 

At the Councils the purposes of the Society shall be 
considered and the best measures adopted to promote 
its interests. No party political question of the day of 
existing controversial religious subject shall be discussed 
or considered at any meeting of the Society. 

ARTICLE IX. 

COMMEMORATIONS. 

Members of the Society, when practicable, shall hold 
celebrations commemorative of martial events in Colo- 
nial history, and dine together at least once a year. 

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ARTICLE X. 

SEAL. 

The seal shall be — 



The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal. 
ARTICLE XL 

INSIGNIA. 

The insignia of the Society is that of the General 
Society and consists of a badge pendant by a gold crown 
and ring from a Avatered-silk ribbon one inch and a half 
wide of red, bordered with white and edged with red. 
The badge shall be surrounded by a laurel wreath in 
gold, and shall consist of: 

Obverse — A white enameled star of nine points, bor- 
dered with red enamel, having l)etween each star-point a 
shield displaying an emblem of one of the nine original 
Colonies, and, within a blue enameled garter bearing the 
motto " Fortiter Pro Patria," an Indian's head in gold 
relievo. 

Reverse — The star al)ove descril)ed, but with gold edge, 
each shield l)etween the i)oints displaying a mullet, and 
in the center, within an annulet of blue bearing the title 
" Society of Colonial Wars, 1607-1775," the figure of a 
Colonial soldier in gold relievo. The reverse of the 
crown of each insignia shall bear an engraved number 

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corresponding to that of the registered number of the 
member to whom such insignia has been issued. 

The insignia shall be worn by the members on all 
occasions when they assemble as such for any stated 
purpose or celebration and may be worn on any occa- 
sion of ceremony. It shall be worn conspicuously on 
the left breast, but members who are or have been 
Gentlemen of the Council of a State Society may place 
a rosette of regulation pattern upon the silk ribbon from 
which it is pendent. Members who are or have been 
general officers or officers of a State Society may wear 
the insignia with three jewels in the crown and sus- 
pended from a regulation ribbon around the neck. 
Members who are or have been Governors, Deputy Gov- 
ernors, or Lieutenant Governors of State Societies or 
officers of the General Society may, in addition to the 
insignia so suspended, wear a ribbon of the Society's 
colors, three and one-half inches in width, extending 
from the right shoulder to the left hip. 

The insignia shall be worn only as above prescribed. 

The Treasurer of the Society shall procure, and issue 
the insignia to the members and shall keep a record of 
all issued by him. The insignia shall be returned to 
the Treasurer by any member who may resign or be 
expelled, but otherwise it shall be deemed an heirloom. 
In case of return the member will be reimbursed by 
the Treasurer the amount paid for the insignia. 

The undress insignia shall be a rosette of the pre- 
scribed ribbon and pattern which may be Avorn, on 



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occasions other than those specified above, in the upper 
button-hole of the left-lapel of the coat. 

ARTICLE XII. 

DIPLOMA. 

The Diploma is that of the General Society. 
ARTICLE XIII. 

FLAG. 

The flag of this Society shall consist of the red cross 
of St. George on a white field, bearing in the center the 
escutcheon of the Society surmounted by the crown 
and surrounded by nine stars. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS. 

Alterations of or amendments to this Constitution 
shall not be made unless notice shall have been given in 
writing and signed by the member proposing the same 
at a previous meeting. The Secretary shall then send a 
printed cojiy of the proposed amendment to each mem- 
ber of the Society and state the court at which the same 
will be voted upon. No alteration or amendment shall 
be made unless adopted by a two-thirds vote of the 
members present at the court voting upon the same. 



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BY-LAWS. 

SECTION I. 

INITIATION FEES, DUES. 

The initiation fee shall be ten dollars, the annual dues 
three dollars, and life membership, without dues, sev- 
enty-five dollars. The Treasurer is authorized to credit 
members elected during the previous year, who have 
paid a year's dues, as follows : 

If elected after April 1 and before July 1, 75 cents. 

If elected after July 1 and before October 1, $1.50. 

If elected after October 1 and before December 1, 
$2.25. 

SECTION 11. 

THE GOVERNOR. 

The Governor, or in his absence the Deputy Governor 
or Lieutenant Governor or Chairman pro tern., shall pre- 
side at all courts of the Society, and shall exercise the 
duties of the presiding officer, under parliamentary 
rules, subject to an appeal to the Society. The Governor 
shall be a member ex officio of all committees excepting 
the Nominating Committee and the Committtee on 
Membership. He shall have power to convene the Coun- 



cil at his discretion or upon the written request of five 
members of the Society or upon the like request of two 
members of the Council. 

SECTION III. 

SECRETARY. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspond- 
ence of the Society and keep a record thereof. He 
shall notify all elected candidates of their admission 
and perform such other duties as the Society or his 
office may require. He shall have charge of the seal, 
certificates of incorporation, by-laws, historical and 
other documents and records of the Society (other than 
those required to be deposited with the Registrar), and 
shall affix the seal to all properly authenticated certifi- 
cates of meml)ership and transmit the same to the 
members to whom issued. He shall notify the Regis- 
trar of all admissions to membership. He shall certify 
all acts of the Society, and when required authenticate 
them under seal. He shall have charge of printing and 
publications issued by the Society. He shall give due 
notice of the time and place of holding courts of the 
Society and of the Council, and shall incorporate in said 
notice the names of applicants to be voted on at said 
Council, and shall be present at the same. He shall 
keep fair and accurate records of all proceedings and 
orders of the Society and of the Council, and shall give 
notice to each officer who may l)e affected by them of 

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all votes, resolutions, and proceedings of the Society or 
of the Council, and at the General Court or oftener, 
shall report the names of those candidates who have 
been admitted to membership and those whose resig- 
nations have been accepted and those who have been 
expelled for cause or for failure to substantiate claim of 
descent. In his absence from any meeting the Deputy 
Secretary shall act or a Secretary pro tern, may be desig- 
nated therefor in the absence of the Deputy Secretary. 

SECTION IV. 

TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and 
securities of the Society and deposit and invest them 
subject to the credit of the Society of Colonial Wars. 
Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as may 
be ordered by the Society or Council or his office may 
require. He shall keep a full account of receipts and 
payments, and shall render an account of the same to 
the Society at each annual meeting. 

For the faithful performance of his duty he may be 
required to give such security as the Society may deem 
projjer. 

SECTION V. 

REGISTRAR. 

The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary and file 
all proofs u]ion which membership has been granted, 

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with a list of diplomas countersigned by him and docu- 
ments which the Society may acquire ; and under the 
direction of the Council he shall make copies of all 
such papers as the owners may not be willing to leave 
in the keeping of the Society. 

SECTION VI. 

HISTORIAN. 

The Historian shall keep a detailed record of the his- 
torical and commemorative celebrations of the Society, 
and shall edit and prepare for publication such historical 
addresses, papers and other documents as the Society 
may decide to publish ; also a necrological list for each 
year with biographies of deceased members. 

SECTION VII. 

CHAPLAIN. 

The Chaj^lain shall be an ordained minister of a 
Christian church, whose duty is to officiate when called 
upon by the proper officers. 

SECTION VIII. 

CHANCELLOR. 

The Chancellor shall be a lawyer duly admitted to 
the bar, whose duty is to give legal opinion on matters 
affecting the Society when called upon by the proper 
officers. 



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SECTION IX. 

SURGEON. 

The Surgeon shall be a graduate of a Medical College 
and a practicing physician, whose duty is to officiate 
when called upon by the proper officers. 

SECTION X. 

thp: council. 

The Council shall have power to call special courts of 
the Society and arrange for celebrations by the Society. 
It shall have control and management of the affairs and 
funds of the Society and shall perform such duties as 
are prescribed by the Constitution and By-laws, but 
shall at no time be required to take any action or con- 
tract any debt for whicli it may be liable. The Council 
may accept the resignation of any member of the Society. 
It may meet as often as I'equired and shall meet at the 
call of the Governor. Five members shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business. At the General 
Court it shall submit to the Society a report of its pro- 
ceedings during the preceding year. The Council shall 
have the power to drop from the roll the name of any 
member of the Society who shall be at least one year 
in arrears and Avho shall fail on j^roper notice to pay the 
same within sixty days; and on being drojiped his mem- 
bership shall cease, but may be restored at an}^ time by 
the Council upon his written api^ication and the pay- 
ment of all arrears from the date when dro[)ped to the 

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date of restoration. The Council may suspend any 
officer for cause, but shall immediately report its action 
to the Society for its consideration within thirty days. 
No member of the Council shall nominate or second an 
applicant for membership. 

SECTION XI. 

VACANCIES AND TERMS OF OFFICE. 

Whenever an officer of this Society dies, resigns or 
neglects to serve, or is suspended, expelled or unable to 
perform his duties by reason of absence, sickness, or 
other cause, or whenever an office may be vacant which 
the Society has not filled l)y an election, the Council 
shall have power to appoint to such office itro teirqiore a 
member, who shall act in such capacity until the Society 
may elect a member to the vacant office or until the 
inability due to said cause has ceased : Provided, hoivever, 
That the office of Governor or of Secretary shall not be 
filled by the Council when there shall be a Deputy or 
Lieutenant Governor or Deputy Secretary to enter on 
these duties. The Council may supply vacancies among 
its members under the same conditions ; and should any 
member other than an officer be absent from three con- 
secutive Councils his place may be declared vacant by 
the Council and filled by appointment of a successor. 
Su])ject to these provisions all officers and Gentlemen of 
the Council shall from the time of election continue in 
their respective offices until the next General Court or 
until their successors are duly chosen. 



SECTION XII. 

RESIGNATION. 

The resignation of a member shall not Ijecome effect- 
ive unless consented to by the Council. 

SECTION XIII. 

DISQUALIFICATION. 

No member of this Society shall be permitted to con- 
tinue in membership when his proofs of descent or eligi- 
bility shall be found defective. The Council, after thirty 
days' notice to such member to substantiate his claim, 
and upon his failure satisfactorily so to do, may accept 
his resignation or may require the Secretary to erase 
his name from the membership list. The said person 
shall have a right to appeal to the Society at its next 
court or at the General Court. If the api)eal be sus- 
tained liy a two-thirds vote of the members present said 
person shall be restored t(i membership. 

SECTION XIV. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

No memlier shall approve an application for member- 
shi]) in this Society unless he shall know tlie candidate 
to be worthy, and shall have satisfied himself by due 
examination of proofs that such candidate is eligible, 
and will, if admitted, be a desirable member. 

Members shall be elected b}- ballot at the first meeting 
of the Council after report by the Membership Com- 



mittee, but a negative vote of one in five of the ballots 
cast shall exclude any candidate. 

SECTION XV. 

COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. 

The Committee on Membership shall consist of five 
members. The}'' shall be chosen by ballot at th e General 
Court of the Society and shall be elected for a period of 
one 3^ear. Three members shall constitute a quorum, 
and a negative vote of two members shall cause an 
adverse report to the Council on the candidates applica- 
tion. The proceedings of the Committee shall be secret 
and confidential, and a candidate who has been rejected 
by the Council shall be ineligible for membership for a 
space of one year from date of rejection, except upon 
the unanimous vote of the Committee. The Conmiittee 
shall have power to make rules for its government not 
inconsistent with the Constitution or By-laws of the 
Society. 

SECTION XVI. 

EXPULSION OR SUSPENSION. 

Any member for cause or conduct detrimental or 
antagonistic, or for conduct inconsistent with the char- 
acter of a gentleman and man of honor or for serious 
disloyalty to the Society, or for other grave cause may 
be suspended or expelled from the Society ; but no 
member shall be expelled or suspended unless written 
charges be jjresented against such member to the Coun- 

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oil. The Council sliall give reasonable notice of such 
charges and afford the member reasonable opportunity 
to be heard and refute the same. The Council, after 
hearing such charges, ma}'' recommend to the Society 
the expulsion or suspension of such member, and if the 
recommendation of the Council be adopted by a major- 
ity vote of the members of the Society present at such 
a court, he shall be so expelled or suspended, and his 
insignia shall thereupon be returned to the Treasurer of 
the Society, and his rights therein shall be extinguished 
or suspended. The Treasurer shall refund the amount 
paid for the insignia. 

SECTION XVII. 

COURTS. 

The General Court of the Society shall be held on the 
anniversary of the Great Swamp Fight. (December 19, 
1675.) Special Courts may be called by the Governor 
at such times as in his opinion the interests of the So- 
ciety may demand and must be called by the Secretary 
on written request of three members. Business Courts 
shall be held on the second Mondays of November and 
March. Notices of meeting shall he sent out at least 
ten days before date of meeting. 

SECTION XVIII. 

SERVICE OF NOTICE. 

It shall be the duty of every member upon notice of 
election to inform the Secretary by written communica- 



tion of his place of residence and post-office address and 
thereafter of ain- change therein. Service of any notice 
under the Constitution or By-laws on any member, ad- 
dressed to his last residence or post-ofliice address, for- 
warded by mail, shall be considered sufficient. 

SECTION XIX. 

DEATH OF MEMBERS. 

Upon the decease of a member, notice thereof and 
the time and place of the funeral shall be published by 
the Secretary at least once in one daily newspaper in 
the city of Washington, and it shall thereupon become 
the duty of members, if practicable, to attend tbe obse- 
quies. Upon official information of the decease of a 
member it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint 
from the Society four members as a committee to repre- 
sent the Society at the funeral. Any member who be- 
comes aware of the death of a fellow-member shall 
make it his duty to see tliat the Secretary is promptly 
notified of the fact, which fact shall also, in due time, 
be communicated by him to the Society. 

SECTION XX. 

ALTERATION OR AMENDMENT. 

No alteration or amendment of the By-laws shall be 
made unless notice shall have been duly given in writ- 
ing, signed by the members proposing the same, at a 
court of the Society. The Secretary shall send a printed 

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copy of the proposed amendment to the memher.s of 
the Society and state the Court at which the samt^ will 
he voted ui)on. No amendment or alteration shall he 
made unless adopted hy a two-thirds vote of the mem- 
bers present at the court voting upon the same. 

SECTION XXI. 

ORDKR OF BUSINESS. 

A majority of the members of the Society shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business 
at any Court, and the proceedings shall be in accordance 
with parliamentary law. 

The order of business shall be : 

1. Calling the Court to order by the Governor. 

2. Prayer b}^ the Chaplain. 

3. Reading of the minutes of last Court. 

4. Report from the Secretary. 

5. Report from the Treasurer. 

6. Reports from committees and oflicers. 

7. Unfinished business. 

8. New business. 

9. Election of officers. 

10. Benediction by the Chaplain. 

Any member having observations to make or resolu- 
tions to propose shall rise in his place and address the 
Chair; all resolutions shall be submitted in writing 
and handed to the Secretary, who shall enter them on 
the minutes. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 



IDHlCETVIBEl?,, 1804. 



Baiud, Absalom, U. S. Army. 

Batchkldkr, George Aiken 

Batciielder, Joseph Fi{ederick 

Batcheeder, Richard Napoleox, U. S. Arniy 

Beale, Charles Frederick Tiffany 

Boyd, Allen Richards 

Clark, Alonzo Howard 

Cooke, Charles Edward 

Cowles, Calvin Duvall, U. S. Army. 

Davem-ort, Richard Graham, U. S. Navy. 

DoRSKY, Rev. James Owen 

Fisher, Robert Strettle Jones 

GooDE, Prof. G. Brown 

IIardie, Francis Hunter, II. S. Army. 

llAiij>iE, Joseph Cuyler 

Haskins, Charles A\\vli)() 

Henry James Malcolm 

Henry, John William 

Hopkins, Archibald 

HoRTON, William Edward 

HUIDEKOPER, FrEDERKJ ^yOLTEKS 

Johnson, James Bowen 

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Keith, Arthur 

Knox, William Salsbury 

TiONG, Oscar Fitzalan, U. 8. Army. 

Mason, Theodorus Bailey Myers, U. 8. Na.vv. 

Meade, Richard Worsam, U. S. Navy. 

Maynard, George Colton 

INTerrtll, James Cusiiixt;, U. S. Al-nl3^ 

IMosELEY, Edward Augustus 

Pjoale, Albert Charles, jNI. D. 

Pike, CiiarlI':s Eliot 

Roe, Fayette Washington, U. S. Army. 

Roe, Francis Asbury, U. S. NclV3^ 

Roe, George 

Saxton, Henry' Dearborn 

Shute, Samuel Moore, D. D. 

Smith, Frank Birge 

Smith, Robert Atwater 

Thompson, Gilbert 

Vaughan, George Tully, M. D., U. S. M. PI. S. 

Watmough, James H., U. S. Navy. 

AVebster, Joseph Rawson 

Webstick, William Holcomb 

W'ej.ls, Benjamin Warner, Jr., U. S. Navy. 

Wyman, Walter, M. D., U. S. IM. H. S. 



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